Improvement in tobacco-bags



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Y CHRISTIAN SCHREIBER, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT- IN TOBACCO-BAGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,050, dated June 16,1874; application nlied April 7, 1874.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHRISTIAN SCEREIBEM of Jersey City, in the county ofHudson and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement inTobacco-Bags, of which the following is a specification:

Tobacco-bags have heretofore been made with a delivery-neck, but usuallythe upper end of the bag is closed by a string and the tobacco is liableto shake out, and besides this there is not any convenient Way ofclosing the bag except by tieing the string, and hence the string isfrequently broken in efforts to untie it, leaving the bag Without anymeans for retaining the tobacco. Y

My invention consists of a iiexible bag with a neck of pasteboardattached at one end to the fabric of the bag, and provided with astopper, so that the bag can be tightly closed; but the neck being moreor less flexible does not interfere with the bag being folded orinserted into the pocket. The bottom of the fiexible bag is closed andindented, and secured by paper pasted upon such bottom. When these bagsare packed into a box for transportation the neck and stopper of one bagare Within the recess at the bottom of the next bag. h

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a vertical scction of the said bag, and Fig.2 is a plan of the same.

The flexible material a is formed into the bag of the desired size. Itwill be scwed together at the sides and folded and sewed at the top, thebottom being left open. A circular hole is cut through the fabric at thetop, and into the same the short neck b is inserted. This is made ofpaper or card-board, and tapering, and has a flange, c, by means ofwhich' it is attached to the bag by glue or paste, so that the parts aresecurely held together. The disk of thick pasteboard f iits into theneck, and it is attached to the bag by a string, k. The revenue stampshould be applied above the neck, and secured to the same and the end ofthe bag, so as to be destroyed in opening the bag. The tobacco ispreferably inserted previously to closing the bottom of the bag. It ispressed in irmly, the fabric of the bag folded and secured by a piece ofpaper, i, pasted upon the bottom, and by pressing upon the bottom acentral cavity Will be formed, as seen in Fig. 1, so that this cavityreceives the neck of the next bag when these bags are packed fortransportation.

l claim as my invention- The tobacco-bag made of flexible material andprovided with a tapering neck of pasteboard or similar material at oneend, attached to such fabric by the liange c and glue or other cement,for receiving the disk f that forms a stopper to the bag, as set forth.

Signed by me this 3d day of April, A. D. 187 4.

CHRISTIAN SCHREIBER.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, CHAs. H. SMITH.

